Unit testing in Visual C# 2010 Express?

Question

Does Visual C# 2010 Express have a unit testing feature?

Answer 1

Nothing built in, but you can always use nUnit with it.

MSTest comes bundled with the Pro edition and above.

Answer 2

Visual Studio Express editions have the limitation that plugins/addins are expressely disallowed. They do not ship with a built-in testing solution, and you cannot add-in one.

Your best/only option it to use a standalone test runner, such as nUnit, mspec, etc... and run it externally from VSE.

Answer 3

As has been stated, the Express versions do not have any built-in, and do not allow add-ins for, this functionality, but you can use an external tool, e.g. NUnit.

You can also set up a command to run from the 'Tools->External Tools' menu option from within Visual Studio Express and run your test runner from that if you wish.

Here is a link that shows how to do it with VS C# 2008 Express, (scroll down to the end) but I think it should hold true for 2010 as well.